Palm Beach Post: Don't expect Detroit to quit

Very few newspapers, magazines, or websites are picking the Pistons to stage a comeback at this point, but one Miami area paper, The Palm Beach Post, warns Heat fans that the Pistons are more than capable of accomplishing the feat.

May 31, Palm Beach Post: Anybody who thinks Detroit isn't capable of winning Game 5 on its own court in The Palace is delusional. It's a six-point favorite tonight, by the way.

O'Neal figures Miami will have to "almost play a near-perfect game" to win.

A Pistons victory would shift the series back to Miami for a Friday night Game 6, which would only mean everything considering a Heat loss in that one would bring a Game 7 Sunday night back in Detroit.

The Heat wants no part of such an assignment.

Does any of this sound like it's over?

Don't put too much stock in reports of the Pistons sniping at each other and criticizing coach Flip Saunders, who happens to be the same guy they praised throughout the regular season for disproving former Detroit boss Larry Brown's value.

The Pistons weren't quite as defiant after their third loss to Miami as they were a playoff round ago after their third loss to Cleveland, but hardly is anyone collecting white flags to wave in Motown surrender.